The music on the batmobile level is my favourite. Really fast paced beat that creates a sense of urgency, and it's catchy enough that you could almost dance to it.
I think this game is one of my earliest C64 memories, watching my brother play this game. Seeing Joker falling at the end was one of the scariest things I ever saw and had to leave the room
I remember being able to "hack" this game with no hacking equipment. Recipe: Get to the end of level 1. Make sure you are on your last life. Kill the boss, then step off the ledge, falling to your death. Killing the boss triggers the loading of levels two - four. Dying triggers game over, but the game now doesn't know how to process this. Result: You start level 2 with infinite lives.
you never knew the hack? When you die on the driving/chemical lab/batwing stage, it tells you to rewind the tape. Dont, just play it from where it is. It will load the final (cathedral) stage instead.
On the tape version, if you died on levels 2,3 or 4, instead of following the instructions to rewind the tape, pressing play loaded up the final level giving you infinite lives.
My favourite game from my amazing childhood 🥰😍 but only problem was that I never finished all 4 levels 😂😅 but the game is so unique and still have this atmosphere like it had in the 80's thank u so much !!!
you never knew the hack? When you die on the driving/chemical lab/batwing stage, it tells you to rewind the tape. Dont, just play it from where it is. It will load the final (cathedral) stage instead.
many memories of this game, if it wasn't for my fever which I had as a child I would never killed the joker....such a great music, this, dragon breed, nemesis, silk worm, wonder boy in wonderland, rastan, trojan, battle ship, platoon, barbarian, Untouchables, Ikari warriors, Operation wolf, wonder boy, ghost n ghoblins, out run...and Rick Dangerous are my favorite C-64 games
The 80's rocked, here's the proof. The music industry's turned to shit so everyones out rediscovering gems from way back. When i say everyone i mean ME, thats what I'm doing
Wow, I remember playing this game when I was a kid. And I remember finisching it too, but it was quite difficult for the little kid I was; played alot before reaching the end!
Man, this is my childhood right here! Amazing music and gameplay. Looking back at it now though, it's really the Axis Factory and Cathedral levels which made this game shine - swinging around on the batrope from platform to platform is amazing fun. The three levels in-between feel more like filler material and are nowhere near as enjoyable.
I remember me and my brother teaming up to beat the driving stage. One concentrates on the road the other looks for the turn :) I always died on the batwing level
I can't believe they had a level where Batman had to analyze products for the Smilex poison. That was never even shown in the film! It would be like a Pulp Fiction game where you had to clean up the blood, brains and skull out of the car and later have Vincent take a dump at the diner.
Brings back childhood memories, I’m 38 now and had this game snd comadore 64 when I was under 10 years old , funny thing is the comadore 64 and all games are still in my mums loft in a box lol
That Matt Cannon theme tune. Always awesome. I'd love to see/hear him and Matt Gray team up to use this in a new Reformations album where the tunes have been updated with more modern instruments. It's a little slow here the Amstrad CPC version has a better iteration.
I remember stumbling across this in a local second hand store for next to nothing. Only played it for about half an hour or so. My c64 was rarely used by that point.
It's interesting to see the C64 version of this. It was top game on CPC. What this version has in comparison to CPC is smoother scrolling. What is missing is the sound effects. But it's nice to see the great music as I remember it from CPC, but on SID now. I am also wondering if the controls/gameplay where good, because I haven't heard about this game on C64 before, not the most famous of the machine.
Finally I got a one c64 that has a working sid-chip...this is awesome. And I have to train my skills on this game. Even though my chip is only 8580 its awesome with this game. And my original batman tape is screwed...I have to adjust it lots of times that it just loads the game. Oh the cassette glory :)!
There was a really cool cheat you could do once you reach the batmobile level, if you just keep going right you'll run into a bunch of cop cars and if you run into them and use up all your lives and die, you'll go right to the very last level! I found this out when I was a kid and was really awesome!
What a great game. Batman - The Movie was my first game on my own C64 with a floppy drive to christmas and I got this an Moonwalker (- which in my opinion wasn't so crappy as many magazines told). And Indiana Jones 3 (The Action game) wich in my opinion was really bad. I don't know how often I made a playthrough with Batman. At least 20 times. The game was very playable and relatively long for a C64 action game back then. It wasnn't too easy and not too hard. Very playable. Music in this game was fantastic! And graphics were good too. I especially liked the Batman "sprite". Batman was surely one of the best licence games by Ocean. Althoug I knew at some point where to go and what to do, Batman didn't get boring to me. Surely one of the best action games on the 64. There was so much to explore back then when I got my Commodore 64 (Many games were copies back then, but when it came to Batman I had the original version) that I couldn't exactly tell which games I played the most. I think that my most played game back then was Airborne Range by MicroProse. I bought it because I was able to get back "Chambers of Shaolin" which I thought was rubbish. It had a template in the box (- oh, the good old game boxes with printed manuals, especially by MicroProse). Airborne Range on the 64 was also fantastic in my opinon. I also played Iron Lord quite often but only the first part in the "open world" was very good (music, sound, graphics, atmosphere.): But the last two parts (strategy part an the "action game" at the end didn't fit to the rest of Iron Lord. Od course I liked and knew many many games on the small Commodre. Started playing on that machine in 1984 when a friend at school hat one. All the "Games-Series" by Epyx. Yie Ar Kung Fu, Cauldron, Blue Max, Zaxxon, Spy vs. Spy (which was really strange and had a very "pychedelic" music), Impossible Mission, and nearly everything that came out. Later I loved Hostages and Test Drive, and of course Pirates! which I played at the home of another friend, because I still didn't have my own computer. In 1987 I got a C-16 from my uncle, because he got himself a C-64, I had to give my Playmobil pirate ship to my cousin for the deal. Then things went faster. I got my first 64 without a floppy drive second hand. Christmas 1989 I got a floppy drive (and BATMAN!). Soon after this I made new friends at the new school... . One had an Amiga 500. After seeing those "sharp" graphics on the Amiga and listenig to its "special" sound I knew I had to get an Amiga ASAP! But I had to wait until 1991. One or two years later PC games started to overpower Amiga games when VGA-graphics and Soundblaster became standard. When I first saw and played Wing Commander, Space Quest IV and other good looking PC-games I was upset as PC's were unachieveable to me as they were so expensive In 1993 I worked all the school holidays and as I hoped, that the then knew Amiga models (Amiga 1200) would turn the tide against the PC's I invested all my money in an Amiga 1200 with a hard drive. It wasn't a totally bad decision as there were some good games for the 1200 (Colonization, UFO, etc.) which sometimes were even better than on the PC.. And I liked the operating system. Workbench 3.x to me was far better than Windows until Windows XP was released. I also got me some extra RAM and a "turbo card". It was a nice and good machine but for Commodore it was "too little too late". In 1997 or 1999 I finally bought my first PC (after a second hand PSX) but it never had the same "magic" as the C64 oder Amiga. Finally: I had the joy to play great games back then like Wing Commander Prophecy, Delta Force, Jagged Alliance (and some other great strategy games like Anstoss (On the ball I think it was called in English) 2Gold, Half Life, Unreal (whicht was fun with friends but which I didn't like that much), Duke Nuke'm, Total Annihilation, Command & Conquer 1 and 2, SWOTL, Panzer Elite (the simulation, not the later "PE Action", Panzer General, Civil War General, Gothic 1 and 2, Ultima 7 when it comes to rpg's (I loved Eye Of The Beholder 1 and 2, but Amiga versions were as good as the ones on PC). Ah, good, good old times! Sorry for my long long monologue. But I did get really nostalgic vibes seeing this longplay. "My wolrd" was good back then. Last year my mother died and I had and have to work on many personal problem right now. Thinking of "the good old times" sometimes is a good thing to me. Bye and best wishes!
Ah, this game! I loved this! My copy is probably less than legit, it offers the chance to cheat (=not die), and I always did, because otherwise I couldn't have finished it. :P Great game, and the music is so good! I wonder if I could still remember the right path in the first and last stages.
I don't know why, but this version of the game is in my opinion the best one. It has something that the 16-bits version (Amiga, Atari ST) are not able to transpose (maybe it is the SID music?)
Remember this game. Still remember the cheat to this game, if you shoot the last guy on the 1st level with 1 second remaining on your last life, you will have infinity time and lives for the rest of the game.
This game looks cool! I never did play it growing up, or even know about it. I started with the NES Batman. The music is good, and gameplay is slower paced than later consoles. But did Commodore 64 games generally not have bosses or is that just this game? Lol. He gets to the top and just whips Joker's ass off the ladder and that's it. Still this is pretty great and I expected not as good graphics from C64 games.
😄 I use to love this game but I was always remember a fatal flaw that allowed you to cheat the game. Once u died it would tell u to remind the tape and press play or something like that and as a kid I one day thought "hmmmm...what if I just play the tape from where it is "and yes, it would load up the next stage instead.
I will get lots of shunning for this, but I think this is one of the rare cases where the Amstrad CPC version is actually much better. Technical limits aside, that version has a much more reasonble and challenging layout of obstacles, smart enemy AI, simultaneous sound effects and musics (pretty good ones for the YM), better looking sprites and better use of colors.
And you're perfectly right. the C64 version (i own it), is a real disgrace. The scrolling is 50fps smooth, but it's like you're on the moon, and the enemies have no AI, and are stupid as stones :/ The Amstrad CPC version is the total opposite : brilliant graphics, sound, playability, enemies AI is great. But it's normal, because the CPC version has been built and developped on a Atari ST, allowing it to go further than the starting from the spectrum or the C64.
Just shows the ability of the c64 if/when good programmers made good games. Pity that such good c64 games only accounted for around 30% while the other 70% of c64 games were either crap or borderline crap.
Batman the Movie on C64 is a complete failure : Music plays at the wrong tempo (too slowly), Batman falls are wrong (it's like he falls on the moon), the enemies have no variety, no AI, are completely stupid.
There was actually a cheat for this, that got you infinite lives, but it was a little hard to pull off. On the opening level, you had to use up your lives & health completely; so that when you face Napier with your last life, as you knocked him into the vat, his grenade(?) killed you. Sounds dumb, I know; but it worked!
![C64 Longplay [090] Samurai Warrior - The Battles of Usagi Yojimbo](http://i.ytimg.com/vi/slBHx5_8fms/mqdefault.jpg)
The music is excellent in this game. And I love the variety in levels. One of OCEANS finest
The music is truly excellent. Brings back vivid memories from my youth
Not that hard, considering Ocean usually released complete dumpster fire games.
I tend to return back to listen this music again and again. And c64 sid sound is so perfect in this.
The music on the batmobile level is my favourite. Really fast paced beat that creates a sense of urgency, and it's catchy enough that you could almost dance to it.
Yee 😎😎
The music should be remade, it's absolutely award-winning
I did a remix to the intro music on my channel.
The soundtrack is awesome!! This game brings back so many good memories!
The c64 sid chip was amazing for its time the c64 music was incredible. Combat school is another piece of genius
I think this game is one of my earliest C64 memories, watching my brother play this game. Seeing Joker falling at the end was one of the scariest things I ever saw and had to leave the room
Genau wie bei mir....nur ich habe es selber gespielt
The damn driving stage! When games were ruthless!
More like when you were a kid and shit at games.
It's incredible how far ahead of Nintendo the C64 was in the sound department.. with only 3 voices versus 5!
It also depends a lot on the artist creating the music and knowing what techniques work well.
I remember being able to "hack" this game with no hacking equipment.
Recipe:
Get to the end of level 1.
Make sure you are on your last life.
Kill the boss, then step off the ledge, falling to your death.
Killing the boss triggers the loading of levels two - four.
Dying triggers game over, but the game now doesn't know how to process this.
Result: You start level 2 with infinite lives.
I was never able to beat the driving stage! Finally I can see the entire game!
you never knew the hack? When you die on the driving/chemical lab/batwing stage, it tells you to rewind the tape. Dont, just play it from where it is. It will load the final (cathedral) stage instead.
On the tape version, if you died on levels 2,3 or 4, instead of following the instructions to rewind the tape, pressing play loaded up the final level giving you infinite lives.
My favourite game from my amazing childhood 🥰😍 but only problem was that I never finished all 4 levels 😂😅 but the game is so unique and still have this atmosphere like it had in the 80's thank u so much !!!
you never knew the hack? When you die on the driving/chemical lab/batwing stage, it tells you to rewind the tape. Dont, just play it from where it is. It will load the final (cathedral) stage instead.
Memories of this game. I always died on the driving stage
Incredible music for its time.
Loved this game back in a day. Also it was one of the few c64 games I have managed to beat)
Good game, and Matthew Cannon's musical score was superb :)
Wow ! Nostalgie ...
J’avais 7 ans quand je jouais à ce jeu, j’avais galère à le finir lol
Les musiques sont vraiment bonnes
Memory Flashback 9 years old playing this on C64 1989 :D! Thanks matey!
I almost cried, so many good memories with my brothers, in my parent´s house
I used to boot this game up just to listen to the title screen song. Hell, I still come back to this video once a year.
My childhood! Thank you for this upload!
The Cathedral is one of the most best and most melancholy SID of all time. ♡
many memories of this game, if it wasn't for my fever which I had as a child I would never killed the joker....such a great music, this, dragon breed, nemesis, silk worm, wonder boy in wonderland, rastan, trojan, battle ship, platoon, barbarian, Untouchables, Ikari warriors, Operation wolf, wonder boy, ghost n ghoblins, out run...and Rick Dangerous are my favorite C-64 games
Daaamn that music absolutely amazing
The 80's rocked, here's the proof. The music industry's turned to shit so everyones out rediscovering gems from way back. When i say everyone i mean ME, thats what I'm doing
Another great way back playback, thx for the memories.
The Axis chemical factory tune is dope as f*ck.
Wow, I remember playing this game when I was a kid.
And I remember finisching it too, but it was quite difficult for the little kid I was; played alot before reaching the end!
Man, this is my childhood right here! Amazing music and gameplay. Looking back at it now though, it's really the Axis Factory and Cathedral levels which made this game shine - swinging around on the batrope from platform to platform is amazing fun. The three levels in-between feel more like filler material and are nowhere near as enjoyable.
The car section... did Batman get home driving in circles going left?
Music ramps up at 13 minute mark. Improving on perfection. So good.
Thanks for that. Really sick when that beat drops.
Awesome loading screen pic, one of the best I've seen
Copy of Batman The Movie comic front page. :D
ah, ok... thx 4 info
Taken from the coming adaptation of the movie
Music is great in this game. Especially the batwing level and the final cathedral level.
the other guy did the leftover bits! priceless!
This one felt abit special when i was a kid. Great game.
I like when half-body Joker climbs the ladder at the end.. looks like a green bear :D
As my dude said below, the music for this game was awesome on the C64
mannnn. I think this was my first game ever on C64 :) NOSTALGIA
Best soundtrack ever
Proper loved this game. Finished it without losing a life . Told my mum and she didn't give a fuck lol
That smilex antidote solution was too quick. I was just getting into the music for that stage.
Wow, I haven’t seen this since I was a child. You could skip to the last level by just turning the tape over.
I remember me and my brother teaming up to beat the driving stage. One concentrates on the road the other looks for the turn :) I always died on the batwing level
Those graphics are pretty good considering the C64 came out in 1982.
8:55 - "Yeah, so what you wanna do is go down Rt 5. and exit a mile after the Batcave - you'll see it on the left. Can't miss it."
Coool game at the time. Remember my wrist aching after going crazy on the joystick 🕹️ dramatic music though 😊
Now I remember! When I played this game, this level was freakin' HUGE! At least by those standards :)
This is so much better than Uncharted 4
lol
sgirwan Ikr
Batman c64 classic old school days
tomb raider on gbc is better than Uncharted 4.
This game seemed so much longer than 16 min as a kid.
The loading stage at the beginning felt longer! But waiting for that music to kick in was such a thrill.
Oh my days so many happy memories playing this as a 9 year old. And 1st time pirating a game on my HIFI 😂
I can't believe they had a level where Batman had to analyze products for the Smilex poison. That was never even shown in the film!
It would be like a Pulp Fiction game where you had to clean up the blood, brains and skull out of the car and later have Vincent take a dump at the diner.
Brings back memories as an 11 year old finnishing my last term in primary school in 1990!
Brings back childhood memories, I’m 38 now and had this game snd comadore 64 when I was under 10 years old , funny thing is the comadore 64 and all games are still in my mums loft in a box lol
Ahh, good old c64...so many memories xD
That Matt Cannon theme tune. Always awesome. I'd love to see/hear him and Matt Gray team up to use this in a new Reformations album where the tunes have been updated with more modern instruments.
It's a little slow here the Amstrad CPC version has a better iteration.
yes the tempo is wrong on the C64 version.
The song that plays during the batwing level has bin playing in the back of my head since the game came out…. Love it
its a great tune
best conversion from a movie on C64 after Ghostbuster
Ha! Ha! concludes the laughing device in the joker's Jacket. He fell 3 times faster in the game than in the movie.
I remember stumbling across this in a local second hand store for next to nothing. Only played it for about half an hour or so. My c64 was rarely used by that point.
This game new and sealed must be worth a small fortune now
lmao that ending sequence
Joker falls down like a ripe fruit 😂😂😂
Amazing graphics and music, but I have to admit I find the Spectrum version much more playable.
this is a true videogame not that interactive movie like crap we get today
SuperFalconZX I prefer Batman NES. Not this shitty game.
Love you man sweet days
It's interesting to see the C64 version of this. It was top game on CPC. What this version has in comparison to CPC is smoother scrolling. What is missing is the sound effects. But it's nice to see the great music as I remember it from CPC, but on SID now. I am also wondering if the controls/gameplay where good, because I haven't heard about this game on C64 before, not the most famous of the machine.
I missed this game..
Awesome soundtrack
Check out the Easter egg in the high score table "Zach Townsend" if you spell downwards on the right and left columns, and "Maestro" in the middle
Finally I got a one c64 that has a working sid-chip...this is awesome.
And I have to train my skills on this game. Even though my chip is only 8580 its awesome with this game. And my original batman tape is screwed...I have to adjust it lots of times that it just loads the game. Oh the cassette glory :)!
There was a really cool cheat you could do once you reach the batmobile level, if you just keep going right you'll run into a bunch of cop cars and if you run into them and use up all your lives and die, you'll go right to the very last level! I found this out when I was a kid and was really awesome!
Not just that, all you had to do was die on the batmobile, batcave, or batwing level, and when it told you to rewind the tape, just press play.
This Batman game was released in the US by Data East.
I liked this version much more than Amiga port.
What a great game. Batman - The Movie was my first game on my own C64 with a floppy drive to christmas and I got this an Moonwalker (- which in my opinion wasn't so crappy as many magazines told). And Indiana Jones 3 (The Action game) wich in my opinion was really bad.
I don't know how often I made a playthrough with Batman. At least 20 times.
The game was very playable and relatively long for a C64 action game back then. It wasnn't too easy and not too hard. Very playable.
Music in this game was fantastic! And graphics were good too. I especially liked the Batman "sprite". Batman was surely one of the best licence games by Ocean. Althoug I knew at some point where to go and what to do, Batman didn't get boring to me.
Surely one of the best action games on the 64. There was so much to explore back then when I got my Commodore 64 (Many games were copies back then, but when it came to Batman I had the original version) that I couldn't exactly tell which games I played the most.
I think that my most played game back then was Airborne Range by MicroProse. I bought it because I was able to get back "Chambers of Shaolin" which I thought was rubbish. It had a template in the box (- oh, the good old game boxes with printed manuals, especially by MicroProse). Airborne Range on the 64 was also fantastic in my opinon.
I also played Iron Lord quite often but only the first part in the "open world" was very good (music, sound, graphics, atmosphere.): But the last two parts (strategy part an the "action game" at the end didn't fit to the rest of Iron Lord.
Od course I liked and knew many many games on the small Commodre. Started playing on that machine in 1984 when a friend at school hat one. All the "Games-Series" by Epyx. Yie Ar Kung Fu, Cauldron, Blue Max, Zaxxon, Spy vs. Spy (which was really strange and had a very "pychedelic" music), Impossible Mission, and nearly everything that came out. Later I loved Hostages and Test Drive, and of course Pirates! which I played at the home of another friend, because I still didn't have my own computer.
In 1987 I got a C-16 from my uncle, because he got himself a C-64, I had to give my Playmobil pirate ship to my cousin for the deal.
Then things went faster. I got my first 64 without a floppy drive second hand. Christmas 1989 I got a floppy drive (and BATMAN!). Soon after this I made new friends at the new school... . One had an Amiga 500. After seeing those "sharp" graphics on the Amiga and listenig to its "special" sound I knew I had to get an Amiga ASAP!
But I had to wait until 1991.
One or two years later PC games started to overpower Amiga games when VGA-graphics and Soundblaster became standard.
When I first saw and played Wing Commander, Space Quest IV and other good looking PC-games I was upset as PC's were unachieveable to me as they were so expensive
In 1993 I worked all the school holidays and as I hoped, that the then knew Amiga models (Amiga 1200) would turn the tide against the PC's I invested all my money in an Amiga 1200 with a hard drive. It wasn't a totally bad decision as there were some good games for the 1200 (Colonization, UFO, etc.) which sometimes were even better than on the PC.. And I liked the operating system. Workbench 3.x to me was far better than Windows until Windows XP was released. I also got me some extra RAM and a "turbo card".
It was a nice and good machine but for Commodore it was "too little too late".
In 1997 or 1999 I finally bought my first PC (after a second hand PSX) but it never had the same "magic" as the C64 oder Amiga. Finally: I had the joy to play great games back then like Wing Commander Prophecy, Delta Force, Jagged Alliance (and some other great strategy games like Anstoss (On the ball I think it was called in English) 2Gold, Half Life, Unreal (whicht was fun with friends but which I didn't like that much), Duke Nuke'm, Total Annihilation, Command & Conquer 1 and 2, SWOTL, Panzer Elite (the simulation, not the later "PE Action", Panzer General, Civil War General, Gothic 1 and 2, Ultima 7 when it comes to rpg's (I loved Eye Of The Beholder 1 and 2, but Amiga versions were as good as the ones on PC).
Ah, good, good old times!
Sorry for my long long monologue. But I did get really nostalgic vibes seeing this longplay.
"My wolrd" was good back then. Last year my mother died and I had and have to work on many personal problem right now. Thinking of "the good old times" sometimes is a good thing to me. Bye and best wishes!
Weird thing is, the Spectrum port impressed me more, probably because I wasn't expecting a game looking that good on the hardware.
Loaded this Game arround 20 Minutes only to hear that Music
Crash rewind to zero haha.
I’ve been wanting to play this game again. I’d like this game to be released on smartphones.
yeah oldies are besties
I think this game has only 1 stage -> when i play this game it ends with first stage. Glad to see there is more.
in c64 top 10
Ah, this game! I loved this! My copy is probably less than legit, it offers the chance to cheat (=not die), and I always did, because otherwise I couldn't have finished it. :P Great game, and the music is so good! I wonder if I could still remember the right path in the first and last stages.
This playthrough Batman absorbs several bullets with no ill effect, so it might be th4 same version.
A soundtrack to rival Sunsoft's efforts on Batman
Isn't the sound engine too primitive?
@@jasonalexander7089 no, its just the limitation of the C64 soundchip only having 3 channels, BUT it is far more flexible
I did beat this game on C64 back in a day. It was very difficult.
I don't know why, but this version of the game is in my opinion the best one. It has something that the 16-bits version (Amiga, Atari ST) are not able to transpose (maybe it is the SID music?)
A little lucky at level 3, were we...
Remember this game. Still remember the cheat to this game, if you shoot the last guy on the 1st level with 1 second remaining on your last life, you will have infinity time and lives for the rest of the game.
what if a new Batman movie had orchestra versions of all these songs with no explanation of where they were from
Spectacular quality.
This game reminds me if Bionic Commando.
This game looks cool! I never did play it growing up, or even know about it. I started with the NES Batman. The music is good, and gameplay is slower paced than later consoles. But did Commodore 64 games generally not have bosses or is that just this game? Lol. He gets to the top and just whips Joker's ass off the ladder and that's it. Still this is pretty great and I expected not as good graphics from C64 games.
Bosses were uncommon on C64. But watch a longplay of Turrican 2 and you should see plenty.
Batman: I'm Batman!
Ah memories....
Awesome game
😄 I use to love this game but I was always remember a fatal flaw that allowed you to cheat the game. Once u died it would tell u to remind the tape and press play or something like that and as a kid I one day thought "hmmmm...what if I just play the tape from where it is "and yes, it would load up the next stage instead.
yup, you just died on the batmobile, batcave, or batwing levels (those 3 were loaded as 1) then pressed play. Straight to the last level.
I don't remember the game beinh as short as this
The Grappling Hook can also be used as a weapon for diagonal-up attacks.
Only in the Trainer Version?!
@@christophersonnenberg7050 No, the game itself.
Yeah you use that to make the Joker fall from his ladder .
I have no memory of that opening graphic at all.
Great music! :)
I will get lots of shunning for this, but I think this is one of the rare cases where the Amstrad CPC version is actually much better. Technical limits aside, that version has a much more reasonble and challenging layout of obstacles, smart enemy AI, simultaneous sound effects and musics (pretty good ones for the YM), better looking sprites and better use of colors.
And you're perfectly right. the C64 version (i own it), is a real disgrace. The scrolling is 50fps smooth, but it's like you're on the moon, and the enemies have no AI, and are stupid as stones :/ The Amstrad CPC version is the total opposite : brilliant graphics, sound, playability, enemies AI is great. But it's normal, because the CPC version has been built and developped on a Atari ST, allowing it to go further than the starting from the spectrum or the C64.
Just shows the ability of the c64 if/when good programmers made good games. Pity that such good c64 games only accounted for around 30% while the other 70% of c64 games were either crap or borderline crap.
Batman the Movie on C64 is a complete failure : Music plays at the wrong tempo (too slowly), Batman falls are wrong (it's like he falls on the moon), the enemies have no variety, no AI, are completely stupid.
It was an awesome game
Nice Outfit.
There was actually a cheat for this, that got you infinite lives, but it was a little hard to pull off. On the opening level, you had to use up your lives & health completely; so that when you face Napier with your last life, as you knocked him into the vat, his grenade(?) killed you. Sounds dumb, I know; but it worked!